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Inspired by writingexcuses.com discussion Writing for the Enfranchised reader
Earlier this year I started a topic about meeting expectation but no one really understood what I was talking about. This is it. As someone who reads a lot of fantasy and plays a lot of rpgs, I'm familiar with a lot of the tropes. So I'm not as easily satisfied with a lot of stories/games; I'm craving something new but it still needs to in that genre.
One of the solutions they talked about on Writing Excuses is to use tropes/story arcs from a outside the genre. Ender's Game was an underdog sports story inside a scifi alien invasion war story.
Another solution is to subvert tropes. Lead like your going in one direction, then twist it around. The problem with this is that it only works once. And if you subvert the wrong trope you just make everyone mad.
I hated Stargate Universe. It had all the scifi elements and problem/solution episode structure that I was expecting. But it had an underlining "Stranded" theme which you're suppose to anxiously wonder how and if they'll get home; and the problem for me is that after all the secrets&lies I just hated the characters and didn't care if they lived or made it home or not. But it would work for someone else who watches a lot of soap operas and likes that kind of drama.
Earlier this year I started a topic about meeting expectation but no one really understood what I was talking about. This is it. As someone who reads a lot of fantasy and plays a lot of rpgs, I'm familiar with a lot of the tropes. So I'm not as easily satisfied with a lot of stories/games; I'm craving something new but it still needs to in that genre.
One of the solutions they talked about on Writing Excuses is to use tropes/story arcs from a outside the genre. Ender's Game was an underdog sports story inside a scifi alien invasion war story.
Another solution is to subvert tropes. Lead like your going in one direction, then twist it around. The problem with this is that it only works once. And if you subvert the wrong trope you just make everyone mad.
I hated Stargate Universe. It had all the scifi elements and problem/solution episode structure that I was expecting. But it had an underlining "Stranded" theme which you're suppose to anxiously wonder how and if they'll get home; and the problem for me is that after all the secrets&lies I just hated the characters and didn't care if they lived or made it home or not. But it would work for someone else who watches a lot of soap operas and likes that kind of drama.